Thursday, February 14, 2008
...you know, the United Nations.
A South African politician is speaking out against his country's offer to host the Durban II hate-fest: Leon: Racism conference may turn into a 'hate fest'
Former leader of the Democratic Alliance Tony Leon, who now speaks for the party on foreign affairs, has launched a scathing attack on South Africa's plan to host a second World Conference against Racism in Durban next year.
Leon told a meeting of the Women's International Zionist Organisation in Cape Town on Wednesday that last Friday President Thabo Mbeki announced that Durban would be the site for a review conference to evaluate the implementation of the decisions of the World Conference against Racism held there in 2001.
"Quite what good will come of this exercise remains open to serious question," Leon said...
South African blog It's Only Supernatural points out:
...America and Canada have already announced that they will be boycotting Durban 2 because they claim the event is likely to descend into 'regrettable anti-Semitism'. Libya has been elected as chair for the next gathering and Cuba as vice-chair, while Iran is a member of the organizing committee.
Although Durban 2 is by its nature a conference to review the implementation of resolutions taken at the original conference, the African and Islamic bloc has sought to introduce a litany of new charges of racism against Israel and the West that were not covered at Durban 1...
